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If they actually add the Protector to team I’d consider seeing it.

Quick note: I didn’t realize the new Doctor Who came out this weekend. I won’t get to review the new show until next week because I honestly want to take time to see what this lady Doctor is going to be like apart from my misgivings already. But I will give a fair assessment. And speaking of fair assessments…

I want to open the article proper by stating I am not angrily ranting at the cast of DC Streaming’s Titans show. I do understand their perspective. They are actors hired to do a show and probably aren’t very aware of the source material. And the article I’m going with doesn’t paint them as frustrating as the Man Of Steel team trying to convince me their take was so much better than 80+ years of a character that’s become my favorite superhero and a favorite of kids not into Batman despite DC’s attempts to deny kids superheroes. (Except for the merchandise of course because some people really don’t understand how merchandising works outside of some business teachings that forget they’re marketing to people with their own tastes and not a demographical hive mind, but that’s for another time.) That doesn’t mean some of their statements aren’t worth addressing in the hopes that someone out there will understand why people unhappy with the trailers to Titans are not happy with what they saw.

Speaking of shows I have yet to see, I have not seen this show. I don’t have the money to spend on DC’s “DC Universe” streaming and comic library service. Considering how many shows and comics are available plus other projects this is one service I’d consider given my love of the DC Universe, or at least the one Dan DiDio is trying to destroy but we had that rant yesterday. Odds are I probably wouldn’t watch it anyway because I don’t like this darker tone DC and Warner Brothers are putting into their shows and movies, although at least the movies are trying according to the Shazam! and Aquaman trailers. By the way, I heard James Gunn, who was fired from Marvel Studios due to rather perverse comments he made on Twitter, is being tapped to do the Suicide Squad sequel only a day after I saw a video essay about how the first movie was trying to be Guardians Of The Galaxy. The timing is coincidence, but I’d wager the choice is not.

So what did Brenton Thwaites, who plays Robin(/Nightwing?), Minka Kelly (playing the Dawn Grangier version of Dove because she stuck longer than Hawk’s brother and who remembers him outside of the Justice League Unlimited appearances) and Anna Diop, who portrays the controversial version of Starfire, have to say about their critics? Read the Variety article for context and then see what I have to say.

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